So FAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah this is a serious fuck up! well categorized!

I live in Tokyo and this guy injured about 10 people and killed 7. This is really scary for me because I like to go to Akiba and it is really nice on Sundays because you can freely walk across the big main street (choudori) and look at all the shops.

According to the news one of the injured is a Police officer who tried to fight the guy with his baton. It is totally crazy to fight a guy with a knife. In the USA we would shot that guy and then ask questions later but in Japan the police are way to slow to use deadly force(or any force) when these kind of situations happen. Sometimes in American shit gets out of control(cops shoot some unarmed black dude 60 times) however in general when deadly force is used it is timely and protects lives. Japanese police are very, very bad and even as safe as Japan is, I feel uneasy when these situations happen. I know that when I need police help sometime I am totally fucked. Those police are going to see my huge white ass and they are going to totally fucken ignore me.
Brian

Marjoram I second your points about the video. I think of blackface as you do and I really think this is satirical and quite funny.

Oh and yes I do think Japanese people are horribly racist. In fact I thought of some more examples to give.

Just two weeks ago I saw a bar that had a no Foreigners allowed sign on its door. This was around Gotanda station in Tokyo. (is this racist?)

I have been refused help repeatedly at a electronics retailer called Yamada Denki because the store staff cannot speak English, however I was asking for help in Japanese and I speak Japanese!!!!

Are those things racist?

Yes my statement is a blanket statement but the truth is very few Japanese people will acknowledge there is a problem with this kind of stuff and that is the problem.

Don't get me wrong Japanese people are horrible racists, I know I am writing this in Japan now! However I cannot see this video as racist because of the black face. They are just dressing up like the people in the original video, they are not dressing up in black face and eating watermelon or fried chicken. That would be racist. However just imitating a celebrity is not at all racist.

Of course this does not change the fact that Japanese people are horribly racist, they are. I am stared at, talked about and generally ignored most of the time. Just the other day two old ladies on the train sitting in front of me started talking about how there are too many foreigners in Japan and what all these foreigners are doing here and how most of us are criminals. They were only sitting 3 feet from me!!!! I was not really shocked by this I know how people really feel deep down so that is life. I have it better being white then many of my non-Japanese Asian friends or then my black friends. They Japanese really really hate other Asians, they are deathly afraid of blacks and willing to deal with whites as long as we don't speak Japanese too well or cause to many problems.